30 Miles from Nowhere

It starts off with a pretty clichéd premisse (reunion of former college buddies for one of their piers' funeral) and a pretty clichéd setting (a cabin in the woods). Soon the expected tensions and unresolved problems start to surface. The characters are pretty well fleshed out from the onset, and the cast does a pretty good job of it (there are familiar faces here, and familiar in a good way like Cathy Shim). Then things start to get weird and interesting, This is also done competently, with mysterious events unfolding gradually, but the director somehow got lost in the end. The plot has a nice twist that I wager most people won't see coming, but the director managed to make a bit of a confusing mess. You are left with a bunch of details that now don't make sense. Anyway, not a total waste of time, but somewhat of a lost opportunity to make something really good.